Are made use of for laying down or shifting the Moarings; for bringing a-shore or carrying off Ships Cables, Anchors, _&c._ or taking in Ballast out of Ships that are to be docked, _&c._ Pinks Are masted, and sail with three Masts, Ship fashion, but round sterned, with a small Lute or Projection Abaft over the Rother. Punts Are built four square, and used about the Docks for fetching Clay, and other Services as the Master Shipwright wants them for. Shallop Is a small Light Vessel, with only a small Main and Fore-mast, and Lugg-sails to haul up and let down on Occasion. Sloops Are sailed and masted as Mens Fancies lead them, sometimes with one Mast, with two, and with three, with Bermudoes, Shoulder of Mutton, Square, Lugg, and Smack Sails; they are in Figure either square or round Stern'd. Smacks Are necessary Transporting Vessels, with one Mast and half Spreet-sail. Yachts One Mast with an half Spreet or Smack Sail, and sometimes Ketch fashion. Shivers Are those little round Wheels in Blocks in which the Rope runs, they turn with the Rope; and the Voyal Blocks have Pieces of Brass in their Centers, (which are called Coaks) with Holes in them, into which the Iron Pin of the Block goes, and on which they turn. These Shivers are of Lignum Vitæ, but those in the Heels of Topmasts, and in great Ships, Catheads are generally Brass. Shoal When a Ship sails towards a Shore, and they find by Sounding the Water grows shallow by Degrees; or when a Sail is too deep, and any Canvas is cut from its Depth, then they say the Sail is Shoaled. Shoe for an Anchor Is made of a Piece of Baulk, or thick Stuff, one End cut with a Hole for the Bill of the Anchor to go into, and the other with a triangular Notch to receive the Stock, which keeps off the Sheats, Tacks, and other running Rigging from gauling or being entangled with the Flooks. Shot of a Cable Is the splicing two or three Cables together, that a Ship may ride safe in deep Water, and in great Roads. Shovels Are allowed the Boatswains for trimming, heaving in or out their Ballast, or cleaning the Ship. Shrouds Are great Ropes in a Ship which come down both Sides of all Masts; they are fastened below to the Chains by the Ship's Side with Lanyards, and aloft are seized so as to have an Eye, which goes over the Head of the Mast; and so are the Pendants and Swifters, they are Parcelled and Served, to prevent the Masts gauling them. The Top-mast Shrouds are fastened to the Puttock Plates by dead Eyes and Lanyards, as the others are; the Terms are, Ease the Shrouds, that is, slacken them; set up the Shrouds, that is, set them stiffer. Signals Are given for the beginning of a Battle, or an Attack at Sea, by Cannon, Lights, Sails, Flags, _&c._ in the Day, Night, in a Fog, in Distress, or calling Officers on board the Admiral. Sinnet